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Sun. 6/11/17 9:20am
listener james from westwood:
Jeff, the rarest commodity sometimes during weeks like this is sleep. If you can score a decent amount of that, it'll count for a lot come next weekend.

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Sun. 6/11/17 11:03am
Uncle Michael:
If you can remember the aughts...yeah, you were probably there.

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Sun. 6/11/17 11:07am
fred:
@UM: Wanting to remember them is another story (though I'm more focused on pretending the 80's never happened)

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Sun. 6/11/17 11:09am
Brian in UK:
Some of the 70s were a bit vague. It was mainly black & white.

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Sun. 6/11/17 11:10am
Uncle Michael:
The '80s might be the only decade where all of the nostalgia takes the piss. Will there ever be any earnest, sincere embrace of '80s culture, other than as pertains to hip hop culture?

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Sun. 6/11/17 11:15am
fred:
@UM: There was over here, a few years ago, as 30-somethings got into nostalgia for before they were born (puzzling to me, but it always happens here). I was alive at the time, and apart from hip-hop I can't think of anything to embrace

Sun. 6/11/17 11:16am
Dean:
Holland performs a Braxton track on an ECM solo outing, Emerald Tears. Saw a used copy of it yesterday, but the cover was kinda beat up, so I passed. Know it?

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Sun. 6/11/17 11:22am
Revolution Rabbit Nov63:
...but then the embrace of the worst part of the 80s - by yeah often people who didn't have to live thru it...well - when did I ever get Society...For that matter - 90s Grunge has become a fixed style now - amongst demographics who woulda been appalled @ the time I think...but then I live in NewHampshuh which is historically disconnected...

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Sun. 6/11/17 11:33am
Jeff Golick:
Simon Reynolds has an interesting book on the recycling of sounds in pop music - RETROMANIA. Sort of about how nostalgia can kill the impulse to create new/original work. But better than I'm describing here. I didn't fully buy his argument, but it's hard to fault his examples.

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Sun. 6/11/17 11:34am
fred:
I was too harsh, I can think of three bands whose records I liked then and still like now: New Order, PiL, and The Pogues

Sun. 6/11/17 11:37am
Dean:
Bought my copy of News from the 70s c.1999 at DMG. Still sealed. That's what I call anti-nostalgia.

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Sun. 6/11/17 12:03pm
listener james from westwood:
Was happy to hear this Pukwana last night on Donna's luminous show in total, and yet it still gave me those "aw, D:O's over!" feels. Which I have now. Thanks, Jeff, and hoping the pre-mitzvah chaos is manageable!